![]() ![]() I’d advise anyone trying to break into the women’s fiction market to note down ideas as they occur, it’s so easy to forget them. What advice would you give to people trying to break into the women’s fiction market? I have written a 140,000 saga novel and learned a lot by doing so but I think it will stay on a memory stick. Entitled “The Dark One” it has mildly sinister overtones. I have just written a 40,000 word story set in the Welsh Marches. I spent about six weeks researching and writing the story and ended up very behind with Christmas preparations as a result.įor me an idea has to be good enough to justify a story and often two ideas come together and can be combined. I enjoyed writing Molly and Charlie’s story and was able to draw on my father’s memories of being posted to Harris during WW2 to provide an authentic background. How long did it take you to complete your pocket novel? As a reception class teacher I didn’t have time to write and enjoyed doing so once I’d taken early retirement.Īlthough I enjoy reading contemporary novels by Mary Lawson, Alice Hoffman, Claire Fuller, Rachel Joyce and Elizabeth Strout, the books I return to are the “Anne of Green Gables” series that I loved as a child, “The Magic Apple Tree” by Susan Hill and my comfort reading during the pandemic, Miss Read’s “Fairacre” books. I’ve always made up stories and English was by far my best subject at school. ![]()
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